Xorg now auto configures itself and the default keyboard is "US" and the default timezone is gmt -5. You can change these in the setup menu. I went this direction because I had problems on intel graphics with the console being blank after the KMS modules would load, before Xorg started. The old xorgwizard is still there if you want a detailed xorg.conf, just hit ctrl - alt - backspace to exit the Xorg server and at the prompt type xorgwizard-old, and the xwin to restart Xorg.

Firefox now runs as user spot, anything you download goes into the Downloads folder on the desktop. At the first shutdown, after making your save file, you'll be asked if you want to move the Downloads folder to the same place as your save file. Most will want to answer yes to that. Lots of other small changes, grabbed Barry's latest scripts out of woof; added options to the right-click menu for the optical disk icon on the desktop so you can eject or explore a disk; fixed some bugs; added new bugs .

No lzma compression now, didn't want to use it for the main sfs file anyway, it would have been nice for the devx file though. You can look here for the details on that http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45322&start=90

So this is using squashfs 4.0, any old squashfs 3.1 sfs files won't work with it..

* In the File Sharing folder click the green Start File-Sharing button on both computers connected to the network, the button should change to a red Stop File-Sharing.
* Wait a bit for things to settle and then click the blue Scan Network button. After about 20 seconds a new Icon should appear named Shared-on-x. If it doesn't try again.
* If you click on the new icon the remote computer's shared folder will be mounted on a folder in the mnt directory you'll see in the File Sharing folder.
* Make sure you unmount the shared folder by right clicking on the mount point that's in the mnt folder before you disconnect from the network or turn off the other computer. If you don't I/O will probably hang and you'll have to reboot.
* The default shared folder is My-Shared-Folder, you can change this and other things by clicking on the Configure button.
* This is intended for trusted internal networks with addresses of 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x.

Setup perfectly except for sound. Setup for sound appears to work, however, no sound. Same result from alsaconf at prompt. The problem may be alsamixer since it will not operate from the menu and no speaker icon is present.

Had the same audio problem with Beta 1. Also with Beta 1, when trying a usb flash drive installation, it deleted the partition. I see that you have a fix for the usb install so I'll give that another try.

I was able to load jpgs into mtpaint (on initial boot)
BUT on saving and restarting (running from DVD)
my internet connection is lost (as in Beta 2)
jpegs no longer recognized by mtpaint (they were on first boot)

Switching to JWM I am soon left with a menu of only two items from the bottom left menu button (help and shutdown)
The file system seems all over the place and I wonder if I should have used ext 3 instead of ext 2_________________YinYana AI Buddhism

Lobster wrote:
Sound had to be set manually by me too.
How did you accomplish this?

Probably with the Multiple Sound Card Wizard, some times the pc speaker gets set as the default sound card. But with Alsa mixer not working, could be a unsupported card. Hopefully I didn't brake jamesbond's Nvidia package when I removed the 32bit libs that where there for Grub.

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BUT on saving and restarting (running from DVD)
my internet connection is lost (as in Beta 2)
jpegs no longer recognized by mtpaint (they were on first boot)

Have you tried Wary-020? I'm using the net-setup.sh and wag-profiles that shinobar posted. Barry's using it in Wary.

Mtpaint opens jpegs for me, don't know.

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Switching to JWM I am soon left with a menu of only two items from the bottom left menu button

Try running fixmenus and restarting jwm. I don't recommend JWM at this point, I don't use it and have did little testing.

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when trying a usb flash drive installation, it deleted the partition

I've had the puppy installer do something like that when running 4.2. I don't install to a flash drive if it has something on it I need.

Probably with the Multiple Sound Card Wizard, some times the pc speaker gets set as the default sound card. But with Alsa mixer not working, could be a unsupported card. Hopefully I didn't brake jamesbond's Nvidia package when I removed the 32bit libs that where there for Grub.

This may be the problem, Hardware info shows 2 Audio Adapters under Multimedia, HDA-Intel - HDA Intel, and PC-speaker - pcsp. Alsa appears to be installing the same driver that other pups are installing for the Realtek ALC1200 Audio card. However, as I indicated before, alsa mixer doesn't appear to be working and there is no speaker symbol in the tray.

I am downloading now the new build 3. But without conviction as build 2 did already work perfectly on my laptop excepted Ayttm but as I also don't have skype in Fatdog64, I can't use it really but only test it from time to time, because nobody can reach me on skype... The use from Skype was early encouraged in Puppy Linux as all the rest of the Linux world was fixed to better use ekiga... I find the decision from Barry best to include Skype in the early depositories from puppy linux. But a lot of old Puppy linux users are now also users of skype and not of ekiga etc...

I see a Mplayer pet. Hm! Why not Xine as usual in Puppy Linux...

Same thing with Firefox + Sylphed... Barry did all the time protect his lovely Seamonkey (against agressors willing better Opera ). We all did adapt our kind of management of our emails to that situation, and now we miss Seamonkey in the new versions of Puppy

Miss is not the right word... You did give us a pet package for Seamonkey and I thank you for it. But Firefox + Sylpheed are hungry and consum the ram will would better give our usual old friend Seamonkey...

So I would find better give us 2 variants of Fatdog: the one traditional with Seamonkey and the new one as you prefer...

A short remark more concerning Firefox:

for people working very often with
- pictures
- drawings
- cartographie (google maps, open street maps)

the only one possible browser is

seamonkey

because only in seamonkey you can turn all the bars off and have a maximal room for the important application your are working for in the browser

The best environment for grafic applications is and stay the JWM windows manager without apparent bar but the left dynamic bar as in Turbopup + Seamonkey or Iceape (I use it in Debian SID and reproduce there about exactly the Turbopup environment with exception that I use better zim as didiwiki as zim as really more power: you don't need to use the edit mode at all in zim. The pages are pretty and the result are text pages directly in you ~HOME, not hidden in a non evident place of the system where you forget it, if you actualize the system and lose so a lot of important work... see Slitaz Linux if you want to try it and compare both!):

you dispose of all the screen for the most important: the graphic application itself!

This may be the problem, Hardware info shows 2 Audio Adapters under Multimedia, HDA-Intel - HDA Intel, and PC-speaker - pcsp. Alsa appears to be installing the same driver that other pups are installing for the Realtek ALC1200 Audio card. However, as I indicated before, alsa mixer doesn't appear to be working and there is no speaker symbol in the tray.

Which files should I check?

That might depend on how your speakers are connected, for my system the multiple sound card wizard shows:

If I'm using the analog outputs then the first choice is the one to use. If I'm using HDMI then the third choice is it. (Note that your video driver must also support HDMI audio for this option e.g. radeonhd)

After you choose a card use the alsamixer and make sure it's not muted. (the m key mutes and unmutes)

Back from travel. I haven't downloaded beta3 - once I've downloaded it and the devx I will look into the nvidia pet problem. Can you tell me in more details what does "not working" means? (ie=blank screen or what?).

The "sound card not recognised" problem is because pcsp driver takes the first soundslot, making it the *default* sound driver. To disable this permanently, in modprobe.conf - put

Code:

options snd-pcsp index=-1

. EDIT: Of course if you have more than one soundcard (eg usb midi card) or if your internal card acts as if it's more than one (like kirk's HDMI output) then you still need to use the Multiple Sound Card wizard ..._________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread.

Back from travel. I haven't downloaded beta3 - once I've downloaded it and the devx I will look into the nvidia pet problem. Can you tell me in more details what does "not working" means? (ie=blank screen or what?).

The "sound card not recognised" problem is because pcsp driver takes the first soundslot, making it the *default* sound driver. To disable this permanently, in modprobe.conf - put

Code:

options snd-pcsp index=-1

. EDIT: Of course if you have more than one soundcard (eg usb midi card) or if your internal card acts as if it's more than one (like kirk's HDMI output) then you still need to use the Multiple Sound Card wizard ...

Tried this but it didn't work. In fact, for some reason "options snd-pcsp index=-1" was deleted when alsa was run. Should I just modify the existing line 137 "options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330" or is there another default file that needs to be changed? However, I believe that the problem is more related to alsa mixer not working. It appears in the menu, but won't run. In a console I get # alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory#.

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